perf trace: Exit when failing to build eBPF program
On my Juno board with ARM64 CPUs, perf trace command reports the eBPF program building failure but the command will not exit and continue to run. If we define an eBPF event in config file, the event will be parsed with below flow: perf_config() `> trace__config() `> parse_events_option() `> parse_events__scanner() `-> parse_events_parse() `> parse_events_load_bpf() `> llvm__compile_bpf() Though the low level functions return back error values when detect eBPF building failure, but parse_events_option() returns 1 for this case and trace__config() passes 1 to perf_config(); perf_config() doesn't treat the returned value 1 as failure and it continues to parse other configurations. Thus the perf command continues to run even without enabling eBPF event successfully. This patch changes error handling in trace__config(), when it detects failure it will return -1 rather than directly pass error value (1); finally, perf_config() will directly bail out and perf will exit for this case. Committer notes: Simplified the patch to just check directly the return of parse_events_option() and it it is non-zero, change err from its initial zero value to -1. Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Fixes: ac96287c ("perf trace: Allow specifying a set of events to add in perfconfig") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-x4i63f5kscykfok0hqim3zma@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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